On 29/12/2018 17:37, Wolf K wrote:
On 2018-12-29 03:20, Mike Scott wrote:
On 28/12/2018 22:31, Nomen Nescio wrote:
...
Â*Â*I will not go beyond Windows 7.Â* ....


Unfortunately, some organizations seem to think they don't need to
support anything else. Two come instantly to mind that cause me some
grief. Supply your own company names :-)

Car GPS unit updates require windows - they don't even support vista
now. Fortunately I have an old laptop that sits in the cupboard, but
its time is running out.

Music score electronic downloads. (Linux? Tough! That was the attitude
when I complained).

The first I could sort-of understand. The second, just laziness or
maybe management ignorance. I strongly suspect there's a breed of
programmer that's too lazy (or just too incompetent) to abstract out
the OS interface from their code.

Seems to me that you expect a lot from the epopel who develop the free
stuff.

Who said anything about "free"?

Both are paid-for services. Both suffer from blinkered design decisions
and/or bad implementation.


But there seems nothing the user can do -- there are no alternatives
to those suppliers.

There are alternatives, such as rolling your own (which you can do with
Linux, if you have the skills). At one time, everything was an

I have the skills, or can acquire them - I don't have the time to
reinvent every wheel that someone elsewhere has made something other
than round.



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Mike Scott
Harlow, England